Windows Boots as Drive F after Cloning

[HeNry2kOoL]

Alright, I just bought a WD 200GB drive and I used Norton Ghost 2003 to clone my old WD 60GB drive to the new 200GB drive. After it was done copying the old to the new, I reboot the computer thinking that it'll just boot with the new drive as drive C. Wrong, instead it booted the new drive into Windows XP as drive F instead of drive C (the new drive is set as master and the old as slave), my old 60GB drive is still drive C and it shows that it's using it as a page file drive and drive F as system. So I thought just unplugging the old hard drive would work, but no it just stalls right before the welcome screen in windows and does nothing. I plug the old hd back in as slave and it boots up perfectly again and IS using the Windows in the new drive, but showing it has drive F. Anyone have any suggestions?? I wanna be able to use this new hd as the only drive in my system, I'm planning on taking out the 60GB and using on my other one.

http://www.geocities.com/henry2cool/drivef.txt

[redduc900]

The following MSKB article may be of some help to you...

HOW TO: Change the System/Boot Drive Letter in Windows (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q223/1/88.asp&NoWebContent=1)

The article was originally written for W2K, but also applies to XP. Step number 6 ("On the Security menu, click Permissions") refers to right clicking the MountedDevices Key and selecting "Permissions". :)

[HeNry2kOoL]

Thanks, but I've fixed the problem by finding out that when booting WinXP with the clone drive and the original drive, it automatically sets the cloned drive as the next drive letter up and won't let you boot from the clone drive by itself. So I ended up recloning the drive and quickly disconnected the old drive before windows boots up. Now my new 200GB drive boots up by itself without a problem. :)

Btw, I've tried the suggestion you've posted before but WinXP doesn't allow drive letter changes to the system drive.